LatinNews Daily - 02 January 2019

Calls for Chilean authorities to clarify death of Mapuche leader

Development: On 1 January Aucán Huilcamán, the spokesperson for the indigenous Mapuche organisation Consejo de Todas las Tierras, called for “urgent clarification” of the events surrounding the death of Juan de Dios Mendoza, an indigenous Mapuche leader (lonko), whose body was found the previous day in La Araucanía region.